{"id":23322,"date":"2024-05-12T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23322"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:15:14","slug":"sea-anemone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sea-anemone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sea Anemone<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an invertebrate <strong>aquatic animal<\/strong> marked by <strong>soft bodies<\/strong> and has an ability to sting. They are close associates of corals and live rocks.<\/li>\n<li>It is an ocean-dwelling member of the <strong>phylum Cnidaria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>sticky foot or disc<\/strong> that allows them to anchor to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>stinging cells<\/strong> which are equipped with organelles known as <strong>nematocysts<\/strong> that contain small threads which are forcefully everted when stimulated mechanically or chemically.<\/li>\n<li>They are known to form <strong>symbiotic relationships with other animals<\/strong>; their most well-known alliance is with clownfish.<\/li>\n<li>They make their homes within the anemone\u2019s tentacles, protected from predators; in return, the anemone eats the clownfish\u2019s leftover meals.<\/li>\n<li>Anemones can have anywhere from a dozen to a few hundred tentacles. These cnidarians come in a variety of colors, decorating a tide pool or reef like a garden of wildflowers.<\/li>\n<li>Some species of sea anemones also have a relationship with <strong>Hermit crabs.<\/strong> The anemone will attach itself to the crab\u2019s shell and be carried around to find more food, while the crab uses the anemone as protection from its predators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Symbiotic relationship?<\/h3>\n<p>These are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a variety of forms, such as parasitism (where one species benefits and the other is harmed) and commensalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/scientists-flag-mass-sea-anemone-bleaching-off-agatti-island\/article68164568.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists flag mass sea anemone bleaching off Agatti island<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Anemone is an invertebrate aquatic animal marked by soft bodies and has an ability to sting. They are close associates of corals and live rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}